Add to your calendar

When we write articles about a forthcoming event, journalists can add an event factbox, with additional details. Thanks to the inclusion of some hCalendar microformat mark-up, if they do, the system now automatically generates an 'Add to your calendar' link.

A question of <TIME>

We've begun to use some HTML5 elements on our pages. If you view the source of one our news article, you'll see that the publication date is marked up with the <TIME> element and a machine-readable timestamp.

HTML5 support is not totally cross-browser, and some legacy browsers - and I'm looking at you IE6* - don't know what to do with these fancy new-fangled tags. Our solution has been to use Remy Sharp's HTML5 enabling script, which teaches the old dog the required new tricks.

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